Accomplished Quote by Margaret Oliphant

But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The good ladies were…

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

“Did all women married to well-known men struggle for recognition?”

— Nancy Horan

“Unlike men writers who marry, most will not have the societal equivalent of a wife-- nor (in a society hostile to growing life) anyone…

— Tillie Olsen

All male writers, incidentally, no matter how broke or otherwise objectionable, have pretty wives. Somebody should look into this.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Women’s work, like much blue-collar work and agrarian work, is often invisible and uncredited, the work that holds the world together—”

— Rebecca Solnit

“The bride who wants to do her full job will plan from the start to create the kind of home her husband wants, and…

— Ellen Baker

“Men who shared the load at home seemed just as pressed for time as their wives, and torn between the demands of career and…

— Arlie Hochschild

“There is plenty of work that needs to be done by men to dismantle patriarchy”

— Malebo Sephodi

[When her husband said her earnings as a married woman belonged to him:] I cannot persuade myself that that which I invent - create,…

— Fanny Kemble

...well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished at any given moment?

— Diana Gabaldon

“Women were responsible for raising next generation of citizens, they themselves needed to be well educated in order to teach their children. She never…

— Lynne Withey

What is interesting to me is looking at how male and female writers depict men who, come in behind to fill those domestic duties,…

— Sherwood Smith